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Photograph of Capt. John Foley Horr House
Photograph by Cristoph3r, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Capt. John Foley Horr House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

“John Foley Horr House is the historic residence of Captain John Foley Horr on the southern portion of Marco Island, Florida. It is located at the north side of Whiskey Creek Drive on Key Marco.”

Wikipedia article Capt. John Foley Horr House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Collier County · listed in 1997 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Horr, Capt. John Foley, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N side of Whiskey Creek Dr., Key Marco, 34145
  • When was it listed? October 1997
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Marco Island
  • National Register reference number. 97001215 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1956 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Capt. John Foley Horr House, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Capt. John Foley Horr House, surveyed 1956

Fires near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Capt. John Foley Horr House in 2009, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest Service11/ CULDESAC ON WHISKEY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Collier County

Maps showing this location

6 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001215 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Collier CountyAll 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.